David Judah Simon (born 1960) is an American author, journalist, screenwriter, and producer best known for his work on The Wire (2002–2008).
He worked for The Baltimore Sun City Desk for twelve years (1982–1995), wrote Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets (1991), and co-wrote The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (1997) with Ed Burns. The former book was the basis for the NBC series Homicide: Life on the Street (1993–1999), on which Simon served as a writer and producer. Simon adapted the latter book into the HBO mini-series The Corner (2000).
He is the creator, executive producer, head writer, and showrunner of the HBO television series The Wire (2002–2008). He adapted the non-fiction book Generation Kill into a television mini-series and served as the showrunner for the project. He was selected as one of the 2010 MacArthur Fellows and named an Utne Reader visionary in 2011. Simon also created the HBO series Treme with Eric Overmyer, which aired for four seasons. Following Treme, Simon wrote the HBO mini-series Show Me a Hero with journalist William F. Zorzi, a colleague at The Baltimore Sun and on The Wire. Simon and frequent collaborator George Pelecanos reunited to create original series The Deuce. The drama about the New York porn industry in the 1970s and 1980s starred producer Maggie Gyllenhaal and executive producer James Franco and aired from 2017 to 2019. Simon's next series, The Plot Against America, debuted in 2020.
We Own This City was developed and written by George Pelecanos and Simon and directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green. The six-episode limited series premiered on HBO on April 25, 2022.
Early life and education
Simon was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Dorothy Simon (née Ligeti), a homemaker, and Bernard Simon, a former journalist and then public relations director for B'nai B'rith for 20 years. Simon was raised in a Jewish family, and had a bar mitzvah ceremony. His family roots are in Russia, Belarus, Hungary, and Slovakia (his maternal grandfather had changed his surname from "Leibowitz" to "Ligeti"). He has a brother, Gary Simon, and a sister, Linda Evans, who died in 1990.
Simon graduated from Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School in Bethesda, Maryland, and wrote for the school newspaper, The Tattler. In 1983, he graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park. While at college he wrote and was editor for The Diamondback, and became friends with contemporary David Mills.
Career
Journalism
Upon leaving college, Simon worked as a police reporter at The Baltimore Sun from 1982 to 1995. Simon was hired by the Baltimore Sun for a piece he wrote about Lefty Driesell, who was then the men's basketball coach at the University of Maryland. Driesell had been extremely frustrated that one of his players was suspended from playing for sexual impropriety and called the victim, threatening to destroy her reputation if she did not withdraw her complaint. This was all done while the university administration was listening to the call, but they did nothing. Lefty Driesell was later given a 5-year contract and, in 2018, he was inducted into the ACC Hall of Fame.
Simon spent most of his career covering the crime beat. A colleague has said that Simon loved journalism and felt it was "God's work".
In 1988, disillusioned, Simon took a year's leave to go into the Baltimore Police Department Homicide Unit to write a book.
Book
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
Simon's leave of absence from The Sun resulted in his first book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets (1991). The book was based on his experiences shadowing the Baltimore Police Department homicide unit during 1988.
The book won the 1992 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime book. The Associated Press called it "a true-crime classic". He collaborated with his old college friend David Mills to write the season two premiere "Bop Gun". The episode was based on a story by executive producer Tom Fontana and featured Robin Williams in a guest starring role that garnered the actor an Emmy nomination. Simon and Mills won the WGA Award for Best Writing in a Drama for the episode. and "Scene of the Crime" (with Anya Epstein). For season five he was the show's story editor and continued to contribute teleplays writing the episodes "Bad Medicine" and "Wu's on First?" (again with Epstein). He was credited as a producer on the show's sixth and seventh seasons. He wrote the teleplays for parts two and three of the sixth-season premiere "Blood Ties" (the latter marking his third collaboration with Epstein) and provided the story for the later sixth-season episodes "Full Court Press" and "Finnegan's Wake" (with James Yoshimura). He provided the story for the seventh season episodes "Shades of Gray" (with Julie Martin), "The Same Coin" (again with Yoshimura) and "Self Defense" (with Eric Overmyer). Simon wrote the story and teleplay for the seventh season episodes "The Twenty Percent Solution" and "Sideshow: Part 2". Simon, Martin and teleplay writer T. J. English won the Humanitas Prize in the 60 minutes category for the episode "Shades of Gray". Simon was nominated for a second WGA Award for Best Writing in a Drama for his work on "Finnegan's Wake" with Yoshimura and Mills (who wrote the teleplay).
Simon has said that he thought the show was a "remarkable drama" but that it did not reflect the book. Simon credits his editor John Sterling with the suggestion that he observe a single drug corner. Simon became close to one of his subjects, drug addict Gary McCullough, and was devastated by his death while he was writing the project. Simon again returned to his journalism career after finishing the book but felt further changed by his experiences. He said he "was less enamored of the braggadocio, all that big, we're-really-having-an-impact talk" and no longer believed that they were making a difference; he left his job at The Sun within a year for work on NBC's Homicide.
The Wire
Simon was the creator, show runner, executive producer and head writer of the HBO drama series The Wire for five seasons. After the fourth season, Simon signed on to produce the fifth and final season of The Wire, which focused on the role of mass media in society.
Again he worked with Ed Burns on creating the show. Originally they set out to create a police drama loosely based on Burns' experiences when working on protracted investigations of violent drug dealers using surveillance technology. During this time Burns had often faced frustration with the bureaucracy of the police department, which Simon equated with his own ordeals as a police reporter for The Baltimore Sun. Writing against the background of current events, including institutionalized corporate crime at Enron and institutional dysfunction in the Catholic Church, the show became "more of a treatise about institutions and individuals than a straight cop show."
They chose to take The Wire to HBO because of their existing working relationship from The Corner. Owing to its reputation for exploring new areas, HBO was initially dubious about including a cop drama in their lineup, but eventually agreed to produce the pilot after ordering a further two scripts to see how the series would progress. Carolyn Strauss, the president of HBO entertainment, has said that Simon's argument that the most subversive thing HBO could do was invade the networks' "backyard" of police procedurals helped to persuade them. The third season "reflects on the nature of reform and reformers, and whether there is any possibility that political processes, long calcified, can mitigate against the forces currently arrayed against individuals." The fifth season looked at the media, as well as continuing themes such as politics from earlier seasons.
Simon was reunited with his The Corner producers Robert F. Colesberry and Nina K. Noble on The Wire. They recruited Homicide star and director Clark Johnson to helm the pilot episode. and later a producer for the show's second and third seasons. Simon and Pelecanos collaborated to write the episode "Middle Ground" which received the show's first Emmy nomination, in the category Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series.
Pelecanos left the production staff following the third season to focus on his next novel; Simon has commented that he missed having him working on the show full-time but was pleased that he continued to write for them and was a fan of the resultant book The Night Gardener. Similar to Simon's own experience in researching Homicide Pelecanos spent time embedded with the Washington DC homicide unit to research the book.
Crime novelist Dennis Lehane has also written for the series starting with the third season. Lehane has commented that he was impressed by Simon and Burns' ear for authentic street slang.
Eric Overmyer was brought in to fill the role of Pelecanos as a full-time writer producer. He had previously worked with Simon on Homicide where the two became friends. Simon and Burns collaborated to write the series finale "-30-" which received the show's second Emmy nomination, again in the category Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series.
Simon has stated that he finds working with HBO more comfortable than his experiences with NBC on Homicide and that HBO is able to allow greater creative control because it is dependent on subscribers rather than on viewing figures.
Treme
Simon collaborated with Eric Overmyer again on Treme, a project about musicians in post-Katrina New Orleans. Overmyer lives part-time in New Orleans, and Simon believed his experience would be valuable in navigating the "ornate oral tradition" of the city's stories. Simon also consulted with New Orleans natives Donald Harrison Jr., Kermit Ruffins, and Davis Rogan while developing the series. The show focuses on a working-class neighborhood, and is smaller in scope than The Wire. The series premiered on April 11, 2010, on HBO and ran for four seasons.
Treme is named after the Faubourg Treme neighborhood in New Orleans that is home to many of the city's musicians. One of the principal characters in the pilot script runs a restaurant.
Show Me a Hero
In 2014, HBO greenlit production for Simon's next project Show Me a Hero, a six-hour miniseries co-written with William F. Zorzi and the episodes directed by Academy Award-winner Paul Haggis. The miniseries is an adaptation of the nonfiction book of the same name by Lisa Belkin and tells the story of Nick Wasicsko, the youngest big-city mayor in the country who is thrust into racial controversy when a federal court orders to build a small number of low-income housing units in the white neighborhoods of Yonkers, New York. Oscar Isaac stars as Wasicsko and leads a cast, which includes Catherine Keener, Jim Belushi, Bob Balaban and Winona Ryder. The miniseries premiered on August 16, 2015.
The Deuce
The Deuce is a 2017 drama television series set in Times Square, New York focusing on the rise of the porn industry in the 1970s-80s. Created and written by Simon along with frequent collaborator George Pelecanos, the series pilot began shooting in October 2015. It was picked up to series in January 2016. It premiered on September 10, 2017, and is broadcast by HBO in the United States.
The Deuce tells the story of the legalization and ensuing rise of the porn industry in New York beginning in the 1970s and its ongoing rise through the mid-1980s. Themes explored include the rise of HIV, the violence of the drug epidemic and the resulting real estate booms and busts that coincided with the change.
The Plot Against America
An adaptation of Philip Roth's novel, The Plot Against America is an alternate history told through the eyes of a working-class Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey; as they watch the political rise of Charles Lindbergh, an aviator-hero and xenophobic populist, who becomes president and turns the nation toward fascism. The six-part miniseries premiered on March 16, 2020, on HBO.
We Own This City
A miniseries based on the nonfiction book of the same name by Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton. The miniseries details the rise and fall of the Baltimore Police Department's Gun Trace Task Force and the corruption surrounding it. With Taylor Branch, James McBride, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Eric Overmyer. About Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement, based on one of the volumes of the books America in the King Years written by Taylor Branch, specifically At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965–1968. The project was to be produced by Oprah Winfrey, but was shelved.
- The Avenue: A book with William F. Zorzi Jr., on the Baltimore drug epidemic from 1951 to late 1980s.
- The Good Friday Plot: Miniseries about Abraham Lincoln and American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies by Michael W. Kauffman. The show was to be executive produced by Simon and Tom Fontana. Manhunt was later adapted by a different team as a miniseries for Apple TV+ in 2024, created by Monica Beletsky.
- Capitol Hill: A collaboration with Carl Bernstein set in Capitol Hill, it examines partisanship and the role money plays in influencing national governance. The series was ordered to pilot by HBO in 2015, but has not received a subsequent season order.
- Legacy of Ashes: On the Central Intelligence Agency, and would have had Anthony Bourdain and Ed Burns on the writing staff.
- The Pogues: Musical project with the help of the late Philip Chevron in development at The Public Theater in New York City, with Laura Lippman and George Pelecanos, focused on the band The Pogues.
- A Dry Run: The Lincolns in Spain: A historical miniseries set during the Spanish Civil War about the Abraham Lincoln and George Washington Battalions, which were composed of volunteers from the United States who wanted to help the Spanish Republic overcome fascism. Mark Johnson will be the series producer and Mediapro will be the series' production company.
Writing process
Simon is known for his realistic dialogue and journalistic approach to writing. He says that authenticity is paramount and that he writes not with a general audience in mind but with the opinions of his subjects as his priority. He has described his extensive use of real anecdotes and characters in his writing as "stealing life".
In a talk that Simon gave to a live audience in April 2007 at the Creative Alliance's storytelling series, Simon disclosed that he had started writing for revenge against John Carroll and Bill Marimow, the two most senior editors at The Baltimore Sun when Simon was a reporter at the paper. Carroll left The Baltimore Sun to become editor at the Los Angeles Times and resigned in 2005 after budget cuts were announced. Carroll and Marimow "were fuel for 10 years of my life. ... And now, I got nothing," Simon said. Simon ended his testimony by declaring, "I don't think anything can be done to save high-end journalism."
Political views
Simon has described himself as a social democrat, broadly supporting the existence of capitalism while opposing "raw, unencumbered capitalism, absent any social framework, absent any sense of community, without regard to the weakest and most vulnerable classes in society", which he described as "a recipe for needless pain, needless human waste, (and) needless tragedy". He has criticized the idea of trickle-down economics.
In 2013, Simon compared the global surveillance disclosures uncovered by Edward Snowden to a 1980s effort by the City of Baltimore to record the numbers dialed from all pay phones. The city believed that drug traffickers were using pay phones and pagers, and a municipal judge allowed the city to record the dialed numbers. The placement of the payphone number recorders formed the basis of The Wires first season. Simon argued that the media attention regarding the surveillance disclosures is a "faux scandal."
During a November 2013 speech at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas in Sydney, he said that America has become "a horror show" of savage inequality as a result of capitalism run amok, and that "unless we reverse course, the average human being is worthless on planet Earth. Unless we take stock of the fact that maybe socialism and the socialist impulse has to be addressed again; it has to be married as it was married in the 1930s, the 1940s and even into the 1950s, to the engine that is capitalism."
Simon has also spoken out publicly against crime journalist Kevin Deutsch, disputing the portrayal of Baltimore's illegal drug trade in Deutsch's book, Pill City: How Two Honor Roll Students Foiled the Feds and Built a Drug Empire. Simon has described the book as "a wholesale fabrication."
During the 2016 Democratic presidential primaries, Simon praised Bernie Sanders for "rehabilitating and normalizing the term socialist back into American public life", but opposed some attacks against Hillary Clinton which he felt focused on her presumed motives rather than the substance of policies.
Personal life
In 1991, Simon married graphic artist Kayle Tucker. They had a son. The marriage ended in divorce.
In 2006, Simon married best-selling Baltimore novelist and former Sun reporter Laura Lippman in a ceremony officiated by John Waters. They have a daughter, who was born in 2010. Lippman and Simon separated in 2020, divorcing in 2024. The two continue to co-parent their daughter.
Simon's nephew, Jason Simon, is a guitarist and vocalist for the psychedelic rock band Dead Meadow. The band was mentioned in an episode of The Wire.
Simon was the 2012 commencement speaker for the Georgetown University College of Arts and Sciences, as well as the speaker for the Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School graduation.
In 2019, Simon joined several other writers in firing their agents as part of the Writers Guild of America's stand against the Association of Talent Agents after failing to come to an agreement on their "Code of Conduct". Simon's statement to the writers union was widely circulated. He had previously criticized the practice of packaging by the major talent agencies.
Works and publications
Commentary
Non-fiction books
Filmography
Producer
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|-
! scope="col"| Year
! scope="col"| Show
! scope="col"| Role
! scope="col"| Notes
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|1996
! scope="row" rowspan=6|Homicide: Life on the Street
|rowspan=2|Story editor
|rowspan=2|Season 5
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|rowspan=2|1997
|-
|rowspan=4|Producer
|rowspan=2|Season 6
|-
|rowspan=2|1998
|-
|rowspan=2|Season 7
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|1999
|-
|2000
! scope="row"| The Corner
| rowspan="17" |Executive producer, showrunner, writer
|Miniseries
|-
|2002
! scope="row" rowspan=5|The Wire
|Season 1
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|2003
|Season 2
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|2004
|Season 3
|-
|2006
|Season 4
|-
|rowspan=2|2008
|Season 5
|-
! scope="row"| Generation Kill
|Miniseries
|-
|2010
! scope="row" rowspan=4|Treme
|Season 1
|-
|2011
|Season 2
|-
|2012
|Season 3
|-
|2013
|Season 4
|-
|2015
! scope="row"| Show Me a Hero
|Miniseries
|-
|2017
! scope="row" rowspan=3|The Deuce
|Season 1
|-
|2018
|Season 2
|-
|2019
|Season 3
|-
|2020
! scope="row"| The Plot Against America
|Miniseries
|-
|2022
! scope="row"| We Own This City
|Miniseries
|}
Writer
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|+ Television shows for which David Simon had writing credit
|-
! scope="col"| Year
! scope="col"| Show
! scope="col"| Season
! scope="col"| Episode title
! scope="col"| Episode
! scope="col"| Notes
|-
|1994
! scope="row"| Homicide: Life on the Street
|2
|"Bop Gun"
|1
|Teleplay by Simon and David Mills from a story by Tom Fontana
|-
|rowspan="4"|1996
! scope="row"| NYPD Blue
|3
|"Hollie and the Blowfish"
|17
|Teleplay by Simon, story by Simon and Bill Clark
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="12"| Homicide: Life on the Street
|rowspan="2"|4
|"Justice: Part 2"
|14
|Teleplay by Simon from a story by Tom Fontana and Henry Bromell
|-
|"Scene of the Crime"
|18
|Teleplay by Simon and Anya Epstein from a story by Tom Fontana, Henry Bromell and Barry Levinson
|-
|rowspan="2"|5
|"Bad Medicine"
|4
|Teleplay by Simon from a story by Tom Fontana and Julie Martin
|-
|rowspan="3"|1997
|"Wu's on First?"
|15
|Teleplay by Simon and Anya Epstein from a story by Julie Martin and James Yoshimura
|-
|rowspan="4"|6
|"Blood Ties: Part 2"
|2
|Teleplay by Simon from a story by Tom Fontana and James Yoshimura
|-
|"Blood Ties: Part 3"
|3
|Teleplay by Simon and Anya Epstein from a story by Tom Fontana, Julie Martin and James Yoshimura
|-
|rowspan="2"|1998
|"Full Court Press"
|18
|Teleplay by Phillip B. Epstein from a story by Simon
|-
|"Finnegan's Wake"
|21
|Teleplay by David Mills from a story by Simon and James Yoshimura
|-
|rowspan="4"|1999
|rowspan="4"|7
|"Shades of Gray"
|10
|Teleplay by T. J. English from a story by Simon and Julie Martin
|-
|"The Same Coin"
|12
|Teleplay by Sharon Guskin from a story by Simon and James Yoshimura
|-
|"Sideshow: Part 2"
|15
|Writer
|-
|"Self Defense"
|18
|Story
|-
|rowspan="5"|2000
! scope="row" rowspan="5"| The Corner
|rowspan="5"|1
|"Gary's Blues"
|1
|Writer
|-
|"DeAndre's Blues"
|2
|Writer
|-
|"Dope Fiend Blues"
|4
|Writer
|-
|"Corner Boy's Blues"
|5
|Writer
|-
|"Everyman's Blues"
|6
|Writer
|-
|rowspan="13"|2002
! scope="row" rowspan="51"| The Wire
|rowspan="13"|1
|"The Target"
|1
|Story and teleplay
|-
|"The Detail"
|2
|Story and teleplay
|-
|"The Buys"
|3
|Story and teleplay
|-
|"Old Cases"
|4
|Story and teleplay
|-
|"The Pager"
|5
|Story
|-
|"The Wire"
|6
|Story and teleplay
|-
|"One Arrest"
|7
|Story
|-
|"Lessons"
|8
|Story and teleplay
|-
|"Game Day"
|9
|Story
|-
|"The Cost"
|10
|Story and teleplay
|-
|"The Hunt"
|11
|Story
|-
|"Cleaning Up"
|12
|Story
|-
|"Sentencing"
|13
|Writer
|-
|rowspan="12"|2003
|rowspan="12"|2
|"Ebb Tide"
|1
|Story and teleplay
|-
|"Collateral Damage"
|2
|Story and teleplay
|-
|"Hot Shots"
|3
|Story and teleplay
|-
|"Hard Cases"
|4
|Story
|-
|"Undertow"
|5
|Story
|-
|"All Prologue"
|6
|Story and teleplay
|-
|"Backwash"
|7
|Story
|-
|"Duck and Cover"
|8
|Story
|-
|"Stray Rounds"
|9
|Story and teleplay
|-
|"Storm Warnings"
|10
|Story
|-
|"Bad Dreams"
|11
|Story
|-
|"Port in a Storm"
|12
|Story and teleplay
|-
|rowspan="12"|2004
|rowspan="12"|3
|"Time After Time"
|1
|Story and teleplay
|-
|"All Due Respect"
|2
|Story
|-
|"Dead Soldiers"
|3
|Story
|-
|"Hamsterdam"
|4
|Story
|-
|"Straight and True"
|5
|Story
|-
|"Homecoming"
|6
|Story
|-
|"Back Burners"
|7
|Story
|-
|"Moral Midgetry"
|8
|Story
|-
|"Slapstick"
|9
|Story and teleplay
|-
|"Reformation"
|10
|Story
|-
|"Middle Ground"
|11
|Story
|-
|"Mission Accomplished"
|12
|Story and teleplay
|-
|rowspan="4"|2006
|rowspan="4"|4
|"Boys of Summer"
|1
|Story and teleplay
|-
|"Alliances"
|5
|Story
|-
|"A New Day"
|11
|Story
|-
|"Final Grades"
|13
|Story and teleplay
|-
|rowspan="17"|2008
|rowspan="10"|5
|"More with Less"
|1
|Story and teleplay
|-
|"Unconfirmed Reports"
|2
|Story
|-
|"Not for Attribution"
|3
|Story
|-
|"Transitions"
|4
|Story
|-
|"React Quotes"
|5
|Story
|-
|"The Dickensian Aspect"
|6
|Story
|-
|"Took"
|7
|Story
|-
|"Clarifications"
|8
|Story
|-
|"Late Editions"
|9
|Story
|-
|"-30-"
|10
|Story and teleplay
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="7"| Generation Kill
|rowspan="7"|1
|"Get Some"
|1
|Writer
|-
|"The Cradle of Civilization"
|2
|Story
|-
|"Screwby"
|3
|Story
|-
|"Combat Jack"
|4
|Story and teleplay
|-
|"A Burning Dog"
|5
|Story
|-
|"Stay Frosty"
|6
|Story
|-
|"Bombs in the Garden"
|7
|Story and teleplay
|-
| rowspan="7"|2010
! scope="row" rowspan="19"| Treme
| rowspan="7"|1
| "Do You Know What It Means"
| 1
| Teleplay
|-
| "Meet De Boys on the Battlefront"
| 2
| Story
|-
| "Right Place, Wrong Time"
| 3
| Story
|-
| "Shame, Shame, Shame"
| 5
| Story
|-
| "Shallow Water, Oh Mama"
| 6
| Story
|-
| "Wish Somebody Would Care"
| 9
| Story
|-
| "I'll Fly Away"
| 10
| Teleplay
|-
| rowspan="5"|2011
| rowspan="5"|2
| "Everything I Do Gonh Be Funky"
| 2
| Teleplay
|-
| "Slip Away"
| 5
| Story
|-
| "Carnival Time"
| 7
| Teleplay
|-
| "What Is New Orleans?"
| 9
| Story
|-
| "Do Whatcha Wanna"
| 11
| Story and teleplay
|-
| rowspan="4"|2012
| rowspan="4"|3
| "Knock With Me - Rock With Me"
| 1
| Story and teleplay
|-
| "The Greatest Love"
| 4
| Story
|-
| "Promised Land"
| 7
| Story
|-
| "Tipitina"
| 10
| Story and teleplay
|-
| rowspan="3"|2013
| rowspan="3"|4
| "Yes We Can Can"
| 1
| Teleplay
|-
| "Sunset on Louisianne"
| 4
| Teleplay
|-
| "...To Miss New Orleans"
| 5
| Teleplay
|-
|rowspan="3"|2015
! scope="row" rowspan="3"| Show Me a Hero
|rowspan="3"|1
|"Parts 1 & 2"
|1 & 2
|Story and teleplay
|-
|"Parts 3 & 4"
|3 & 4
|Story
|-
|"Parts 5 & 6"
|5 & 6
|Story and teleplay
|-
| rowspan="4" |2017
! scope="row" rowspan="9" | The Deuce
| rowspan="4" |1
|"Pilot"
|1
|Story and teleplay
|-
|"The Principle is All"
|3
|Story and teleplay
|-
|"Au Reservoir"
|7
|Story
|-
|"My Name Is Ruby"
|8
|Story and teleplay
|-
| rowspan="2"|2018
| rowspan="2"|2
|"Our Raison d'Etre"
|1
|Story and teleplay
|-
|"Inside the Pretend"
|9
|Story and teleplay
|-
| rowspan="3"|2019
| rowspan="3"|3
|"The Camera Loves You"
|1
|Story and teleplay
|-
|"That's a Wrap"
|7
|Story and teleplay
|-
|"Finish It"
|8
|Story and teleplay
|-
| rowspan="4" |2020
! scope = "row" rowspan="4" |The Plot Against America
|1
|"Part 1"
|1
|Teleplay
|-
|1
|"Part 2"
|2
|Teleplay
|-
|1
|"Part 4"
|4
|Teleplay
|-
|1
|"Part 6"
|6
|Teleplay
|-
| rowspan="2" |2022
! scope = "row" rowspan="2" |We Own This City
| rowspan="2" |1
|"Part One"
|1
|Teleplay
|-
|"Part Six"
|6
|Teleplay
|}
References
Further reading
External links
- David Simon's blog.